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Processing of Affective Meaning in Native and Nonnative Language: Why Context Matters

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Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers

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This chapter provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical findings of two electrophysiological studies on contextualised affective language processing in bilinguals, whose methodology and results were presented in Chap. 5. The discussion is centred on the leitmotif of this book, that is, the idea that people’s affective experiences are boosted in real communicative interactions whose nature is orchestrated by the broadly construed context (e.g. pragmatic, social, introspective, cultural). In the present study, reading affective adjectives in natural sentence context led to the suppression of negative meaning in the second language, an effect that was not reported for these same adjectives embedded in minimal context of a word pair. I discuss these findings within the framework of repression mechanism (Wu and Thierry, J Neurosci 32(19):6485–6489, 2012.), affective anticipation (Bar, Trends Cogn Sci 11(7):280–289; Philos Trans R Soc Lond Ser B Biol Sci 364(1521):1235–1243, 2009; Van Berkum, Ital J Linguist, 22(1):181–208, 2010), and neuropragmatics (Van Berkum, Ital J Linguist, 22(1):181–208, 2010; Theoret Linguist 39(1/2):75–86, 2013), and relate them to evidence from previous cognitive and neurocognitive studies on affective word processing in bilingualism. Crucially, the present study provides the first neurocognitive interpretation of findings reported in clinical and introspective studies on affect and language in bilingualism. I also discuss its potential implications in decision-making, and models of bilingual lexical access.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For example “At the edge of the cliff, someone came from behind and pushed/rescued/invented him” (Moreno & Vázquez, 2011, p. 135).

  2. 2.

    Here, I exclude from this discussion culturally specific and highly arousing taboo words or swear words.

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    Note that this hypothesis could not be addressed in electrophysiological analyses due to an insufficient number of epochs per condition.

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Jończyk, R. (2016). Processing of Affective Meaning in Native and Nonnative Language: Why Context Matters. In: Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers. The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47635-3_6

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